Problem with Imagine plugin

[shammat]

Hi,

for some reason the imagine plugin is no longer working for me.

I have re-installed the current version, but when I display e.g. a jpg, png or gif file, the image is not displayed (only the "ascii" data)

When I enable the option "Use IrfanView/XnView to load graphics" then those pictures are displayed. But I guess it's not the plugin that displays the pcitures then.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing some property in wincmd.ini but I cannot find the reason why the plugin does not work.

I'm using TC 7.03 on Windows XP

Thanks
Thomas

[dott]

You test this already, I think, but to be sure.

wincmd.ini

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[Lister]
BmpStartup=1

or

Configuration→Edit/View→Multimedia display→[x]Load bitmaps as graphics at startup

[sqa_wizard]

It's a little bit tricky with lister plugins.
The sequence number of each lister plugin is important.
If a file should be displayed with lister, the first plugin who feels able to displays this kind of file, catches the file and shows up (starting with plugin #1, then #2 ...)

You may read the window title of the lister, if the file is displayed: The name of the plugin follows in brackets e.g. "Lister (imagine)"

Pressing the "4" key while lister is shown, will toggle to the next plugin ...

[shammat]

Configuration→Edit/View→Multimedia display→[x]Load bitmaps as graphics at startup

Yes this is already enabled.

The sequence number of each lister plugin is important.
If a file should be displayed with lister, the first plugin who feels able to displays this kind of file, catches the file and shows up (starting with plugin #1, then #2 ...)

Currently this is the only lister plugin I have (and thus it's position 1)

You may read the window title of the lister, if the file is displayed: The name of the plugin follows in brackets e.g. "Lister (imagine)"

Pressing the "4" key while lister is shown, will toggle to the next plugin ...

When I press "4" nothing happens. The lister title simply shows the path to the file.

[petermad]

2shammat
1. Make sure that the imagine.dll and the imagine.wlx files are the same version (have the same date).

2. If that doesn't help you might have an outdated plugin in the imagine\plugin folder - try and move the content of imagine\plugin somewhere else to see if that helps.

3. Make sure you have the following setting in your wincmd.ini

[ListerPlugins]
0=path_to_imagine\Imagine.wlx
0_detect=MULTIMEDIA

4. Try and delete/move your imagine.ini file

[shammat]

2. If that doesn't help you might have an outdated plugin in the imagine\plugin folder - try and move the content of imagine\plugin somewhere else to see if that helps.

That was the problem!
Thanks for your help

[valexiev]

Hi! I updated Imagine to 1.0.7 by simply unzipping to
C:\totalcmd\plugins\WLX\Imagine
and now it doesn't work.

0. View and QuickView show images as text

1. Selecting 4 (Options> Image/Multimedia) is not possible: the checkbox stays at 2 "Binary (fixed line width)"

2. I have in wincmd.ini:

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[Lister]
BmpStartup=1
IView=0
Multimedia=1
[ListerPlugins]
0=%COMMANDER_PATH%\plugins\WLX\Thumbs\Thumbs.wlx
1=%COMMANDER_PATH%\plugins\WLX\Imagine\Imagine.wlx
1_detect=MULTIMEDIA

3. When I look with TC Plugins Manager, it says Imagine.wlx is "loaded"

4. Imagine.dll and Imagine.wlx have the same date (1/31/2010 0:0:0)

5. I renamed Imagine\Plugin and Imagine.ini to *-old, no effect

6. Even moving Imagine above Thumbs has no effect

7. Restarting TC doesn't help

Do I need to enumerate all image file extensions in addition to MULTIMEDIA?

[MVV]

Hi, valexiev,

What kind of image format you're trying to see with Imagine? Can Imagine open it directly via Imagine.exe?
You may try to start Imagine.exe to check if Imagine itself works. Imagine as plugin reguires at least two files - Imagine.wlx and Imagine.dll, and it is better to use both ones from same version.

I have same values for wincmd.ini parameters that you've specified (except paths).

[valexiev]

Happens with every format: PNG, JPG...
Imagine works ok, even preview in the Explorer Properties dialog.

[MVV]

Maybe you should try to remove Imagine via TC plugins configuration dialog (Configuration - Plugins - Lister plugins) and add it back then?